Mammography dose in relation to body mass index, race and menopausal status

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 425-432

  Schubauer Berigan, M K ^a   Frey, G D ^b   Baron, L ^b   Hoel, D G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENOPAUSE; NEGRO; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION DOSE; THICKNESS; UNITED STATES; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0035990259     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006733     Document Type: Article

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